I see that with the "similar posts you may like" bar....some of them are ancient by most standards- so may or may not help, but there is zero reason to comment on them at that stage. 

A few weeks at a time, my longest trip of late was 4 weeks to Egypt but I have nothing specific planned at the moment. 

If you close without having a property manager in place, without knowing the area, and more importantly without a clear title or title company, then might I suggest you can buy some forest land in Egypt as well?

Ancient, oversimplified and definitely out of compliance, but the approach to yields and negotiation might be useful.

That being said, there are more 1900 dollar two bedroom apartments available right now than you could have imagined a few years ago, and the sub-250k housing stock that used to be abundant is pretty much ancient history.

@Josh Sterling,Perhaps the ancient philosophy applies and will help you to define the answer to your question; Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

I am ready to get my tenants to pay online instead of the ancient way of checks.

Yea, it's from these 'ancient' history of US betrayal in Asia that create the new world division between G7 vs BRICS. 

These are ANCIENT to Texans.  

If they arent renovated they will be old or ancient.